Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	1726
Launched:	23 February 1737
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Wrecked 5 October 1744
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1921 tons
Length:	174 ft 8in gun deck
Beam:	50 ft 5 in
Draught:	18 ft
Height from waterline to top of mainmast:
Propulsion:	Sail
Speed:
Range:	No fuel so limited by water and provisions
Complement:	Around 900
Armour:	None
Armament:	Four 6-pounders on the forecastle Twelve 6-pounders on the quarter-deck Twenty eight 12-pounders on the upper deck Twenty eight 24-pounders on the middle deck Twenty eight 42-pounders on the main gun deck

HMS Victory, 100, was a first-rate ship of the line of Britain's Royal Navy.

Some of the timbers used were taken from the remains of HMS Royal James which had caught fire in February 1721 whilst having weed burned from her bottom. This ship had been named Victory herself between 1691 and 1714.

The new Victory was launched in 1737 and became the flagship of the channel fleet under Sir John Norris in 1741. She was the last British First Rate to be armed entirely with brass cannon.

She was wrecked with the loss of her entire crew whilst returning to England as the flagship of Admiral Sir John Balchen after breaking the blockade of Sir Charles Hardy, in the Tagus estuary. As the fleet reached the English Channel on 3 October 1744 it was scattared by a large storm. At around 15:30 on 4 October the ships accompanying Victory lost sight of her near to the Channel Islands. She was wrecked the following day on Black Rock just off the Casquets.

References

• How many Victorys have their been?
• Balchin family society website

For the better known museum ship at Portsmouth on which Admiral Nelson was killed during the Battle of Trafalgar, see HMS Victory. For other ships of the same name see HMS Victory (disambiguation).